Efeitos da educação sobre a saúde na região Nordeste: evidências com base em um painel espacial

Abstract

This work aims to understand how socioeconomic development is distributed from a regional perspective with widely used indicators, notably using health and education determinants, drawing attention to the possible spatial effects resulting from this distribution. The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of education on health in Northeastern Brazil by using a spatial panel model of municipal data based on data from Atlas do Disinvolvement from the last three population censuses (1991, 2000 and 2010). This dissertation aims to contribute as a basis for future works by focusing on the analysis of the Northeast region, through a spatial panel. The results show that education is significant both through its measurement of the illiteracy rate and also by the expectation of years of study, which is a robust result, obtained from the analysis of the three health indicators: life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate, and rate of childhood mortality. The spatial panel model, mainly for the variable of expectation of years of study on mortality rates, has a significant spillover effect, confirming the hypothesis raised in this study. Thus, educational policies are important, especially taking into account the regional and spatial issues; in this case, this possible integration may be important in the search for designs and implementation of public policies.